BHUBANESWAR: The Juangs of Jajpur have become the fifth Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group in the country and second in the state to get habitat rights under the Forest Rights Act, 2006. The district-level committee under the Forest Rights Act approved the habitat rights of the Juang community on Tuesday. Along with the habitat rights, 165 individual forest rights, 11 community …
Published : Jul 27, 2023 11:00 IST - 6 MINS READ A few weeks ago I had gone to Kabliwadi in Odisha’s Keonjhar district. For the indigenous, there are two points in time marking their emergence: one that is traced back to a mythological time enshrined in their collective memory and expressed in their community’s “story of origin”, and the …
